Journal ArticleDaedalus · January 1, 2021
AbstractThis essay sees the recent trend in novels that feature damaged, partial, or wayward protagonists as the ascent of a tradition of formal outliers as old as the novel itself to a position of dominance ...
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Journal ArticleVictorian Literature and Culture · March 1, 2019
By treating the imaginary element that is sex, the deployment of sexuality established one of its most essential internal operating principles; the desire for sex - the desire to have it, to have access to it, to liberate it, to articulate it in discourse, ...
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Book · December 26, 2017
Although it differed markedly from the style we attribute to literary authors, Armstrong and Tennenhouse argue, such democratic writing lives on in the novels of Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and James. ...
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Journal ArticleDaedalus · January 1, 2021
AbstractThis essay sees the recent trend in novels that feature damaged, partial, or wayward protagonists as the ascent of a tradition of formal outliers as old as the novel itself to a position of dominance ...
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Journal ArticleVictorian Literature and Culture · March 1, 2019
By treating the imaginary element that is sex, the deployment of sexuality established one of its most essential internal operating principles; the desire for sex - the desire to have it, to have access to it, to liberate it, to articulate it in discourse, ...
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Book · December 26, 2017
Although it differed markedly from the style we attribute to literary authors, Armstrong and Tennenhouse argue, such democratic writing lives on in the novels of Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and James. ...
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Book · 2014
This collection investigates how middle-class writers who had long emulated the behaviour of the aristocracy began to criticise that behaviour by formulating an alternative object of desire. ...
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Book · December 2, 2013
First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2009
During the Victorian period, the novel confronted a new definition of human nature that challenged Enlightenment models of individualism. Across a swath of disciplines - not only biology and natural history, but sociology, psychology, theology, moral philo ...
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Book · 2006
A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries. ...
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Book · 1999
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The Victorian novel's collaboration with photography was indeed so successful, Armstrong contends, that literary criticism assumes a text is gesturing toward the real whenever it invokes a photograph. ...
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Book · January 1991
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Si una de las conquistas principales del feminismo de los años 70 fue el reconocimiento de que “lo privado es público”, el libro de Nancy Armstrong convierte lo que era un eslogan político en un presupuesto epistemológico y un punto ... ...
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